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This website covers knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints, amongst other topics. Opinions expressed here are strictly those of the owner, Jack Vinson, and those of the commenters.

Jul 11 Integration or centrifugation

Software and hardware should be integrated, so they are best able to work together and provide the business what it needs. At least that has been the thinking of enterprise application integration proponents. Five years ago this could only happen by hard-coding the integration A and B, and another for B to C, and another for C to A.

More recently, and what makes more sense to me, people have been talking about creating software and hardware that doesn't really care about its neighbors -- there just needs to be a standard way for everyone to communicate (wi-fi, xml, web services). I had the opportunity to lead the CENSA XML white paper that the membership approved in February 2002, "Leveraging XML for eR&D." (Unfortunately, it is available only to members.) Essentially, we said "XML is good" and should be used as part of the overall strategy of integrating the wide variety of applications and instruments used in the R&D world.

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This blog is about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and other topics. Opinions expressed here are strictly those of the owner, Jack Vinson, and those of the commenters.